Humanitarian Impact Winner and Award Finalists Announced
On behalf of the Itanium Solutions Alliance, I would like to congratulate our 2010 Innovation Award Humanitarian Impact winner and category finalists who are being announced this week. Our Humanitarian winner is COMPUTAEX from the the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain. COMPUTAEX relies on an Itanium-based supercomputer to support a wide variety of complex social, environmental, and scientific improvement projects for the region. Their entry was truly outstanding and we applaud their significant list of achievements and positive impact since completing their launch in March 2009.
I would also like to recognize the impressive list of finalists in our other categories as selected by our esteemed panel of judges. They are as follows:
Computationally Intensive Applications:
- COMPUTAEX
- eBay
- University of Malaga
Data Center Modernization:
- Fraport AG
- Future Electronics
- MegaFon
Mission-Critical Data:
- Nordea Bank Finland
- Taiwan’s Bureau of Labor Insurance
- The Shanghai Stock Exchange
- Yodobashi Camera
Winners of these other categories will be announced on September 14th, 2010 at the Innovation Awards Celebration in San Francisco at The Westin St. Francis. This was a banner year for the Innovation Awards program, with submissions received from across the globe from companies, universities and not for profit organizations — all of whom are realizing truly impressive results from their Itanium-based servers. Thank you to all of our entrants and to our judges!
On behalf of the Alliance I am delighted to welcome our newest Alliance Sponsor